Among my colleagues, there is a male employee whose parents carry out a big agricultural business on a farm. I hear that they grow rice mainly and vegetables, too. He sometimes gets emotionally exhausted from work and I have often been worried about him. But strange to say he often gets totally refreshed mentally and physically after weekends. Though he has still a lot of things to do, he comes to the office refreshed. He not only looks better on the surface, but also his spiritual aura gets thicker.

colleague 同僚

male 男性の

employee 従業員

carry out A Aを行なう

agricultural 農業の

mainly 主に

emotionally 精神的に

exhausted 疲労した

strange to say 奇妙なことに

get refreshed リフレッシュする

not only A but also B AだけでなくBも

on the surface 表面的に

aura オーラ

thick 厚い

Interested, I asked him how he spent his holidays. He said that he usually gets up early in the morning and messes about with the soil, fertilizing crops and pulling weeds and then idle the whole afternoon watching TV and taking a nap and that the more he is suffering mentally, the more he messes about with the soil.

ask A B AにBを尋ねる

spend 過ごす

get up 起きる

mess about A Aいじりをする

soil 土

fertilize 肥料をやる

crop 作物

weed 雑草

idle だらだらと過ごす

whole 全体の

take a nap 昼寝をする

the 比較級〜, the 比較級… 〜であればあるほどますます…

I feel unnecessary static electricity goes off from my body when I touch plants or soil.Unnecessary static electricity accumulated in human bodies seems impurities with my spiritual eyes. In Shinto, a purification ceremony is performed with Haraegushi（祓串）, a stick of a white tree with a branch of a plant called “Cleyera japonica”（榊）attaching to it. By cutting through the air with the stick, static electricity at the place is neutralized. The most powerful plant which can get rid of static electricity is perhaps a leaf of a hemp used to be used a long time ago.

unnecessary 不必要な

static electricity 静電気

go off 出る

plant 植物

accumulate 蓄積する

impurities 穢れ

spiritual eye 霊眼

purification ceremony お祓いの儀式

perform 行なう

branch 枝

neutralize 中和させる

get rid of A Aをなくす

perhaps 恐らく

hemp 大麻

used to~ 以前＝していた

a long time ago 昔

I have heard that porters dwelling in a mountain who help climbers wear a copper wire on their wrist. Doing so makes a difference in the degree of exhaustion. It improves physical endurance. This is because the copper wire discharges the static electricity accustomed in the body.

porter ポーター

dwell 住む

copper wire 銅線

wrist 手首

degree 度合い

improve 改善する

endurance 持久力

discharge 放電する

People who get easily frustrated should wear clothes or an underwear made of natural material which doesn’t take on static electricity. If possible, they should avoid nylon material as bedclothes for their health. When I use a blanket of 100% nylon, I feel very tired on waking up. Be careful with nylon material which crackles. This static electricity gives stress to cells and may be one of the causes of cancer.

Thunderbolts these days seem different from what they used to be. The position they rumble feels much lower than before. It is often said that a thunderbolt is a sign of the change of season. This year too, it has become cold in the morning and at night after a strike of lightning.

thunderbolt 雷

these days 近頃の

what they used to be 以前のもの

rumble 鳴る

than before 以前よりも

sign 合図

the change of season 季節の変わり目

a strike of lightning 落雷

Thunderbolt（雷） is called “Kaminari”（神成り） in Japanese, meaning a phenomenon of God becoming energy and appearing. The word “Kaminari”（神鳴り）feels also like “God cries”.

mean 意味する

phenomenon 現象

appear 現れる

cry 泣く

The reason why the temperature goes down right after thunder roars may be that plants wake up from languor of summer, stimulated by the thunder. Plants wake up and begin to emit an enzyme actively.

reason 理由

temperature 気温

go down 下がる

roar 鳴る

wake up 目覚める

languor だるさ

stimulate 刺激する

emit 放出する

enzyme 酵素

actively 活発に

Plants are beings which can communicate with holy spirits. For example, it has been said that a maidenhair tree should not be planted in a private garden because it is easy for spiritual beings to dwell within the tree. Maidenhair trees have been planted in precincts of shrines and temples since a long time ago. A shape of a leaf of a maidenhair tree in a sacred place looks like a hand of Tengu（天狗）, a long-nosed goblin in my spiritual sight.

communicate 通じている

holy spirit 神霊

maidenhair tree 銀杏の木

plant 植える

private 個人の

garden 庭

dwell within A Aに宿る

precincts 境内

shrine 神社

temple 寺院

a long time ago 昔

shape 形

sacred 神聖な

Maidenhair trees are easy for Tengu to dwell in. As long as a person living in a house with a garden where a maidenhair tree is planted is as high in spiritual level as the long-nosed goblin, there is no problem. But otherwise, in my image, the person’s energy would be absorbed by the goblin.

as long as S+V SがVする限り

otherwise もしそうでなければ

absorb 吸収する

Just as thunderbolt makes plants wake up, so human beings are influenced by it before they knew it. Spiritually speaking, in a densely populated area, thunder tends to occur and lightning often strikes.

Just as S’+V’ so S+V ちょうどS’がV’するようにSはVする

before they knew it 知らぬ間に

densely populated 人口の密集した

tend to~ 〜する傾向がある

occur 起こる

In the sky above those densely populated areas, there is a wreath of humans’ thoughts. It seems that clear thought like gratitude or pleasure ascends to heaven, while heavy thought like anger, anxiety, or sadness stays long above the town.

a wreath of A 渦巻くA

It seems that S+V SがVするように思われる

clear 澄んだ

gratitude 感謝の気持ち

pleasure 喜び

ascend 上がる

, while S+V 一方SはVする

anger 怒り

anxiety 不安

sadness 悲しみ

Thunderbolt is a kind of purification by God to get rid of cloudiness of humans’ thought. Heavy energy has been growing in the sky all over Japan recently. Thunders have often occurred in a lot of regions and lightning has struck the areas. Why don’t we go off clear energy to avoid the strike of a thunderbolt?

What I remeber when I hear of The 1000 Day Circumambulation（千日回峰行）is Mr.Yusai Sakai（酒井雄哉）, Great Ajari （大阿闍梨,a master in Esoteric Buddhism) of Tendai Sect（天台宗）. I still remember watching an NHK documentary program on TV more than 30 years ago about Mr. Sakai’s life and The 1000 Day Circumambulation. What he, a great Buddhist monk who accomplished The 1000 Day Circumambulation for the first time in a while, said in the program was unexpected.

hear of A Aについて聞く

monk 僧

accomplish 成し遂げる

for the first time in a while 久方ぶりの

unexpected 予想外の

According to him, his life had been full of desires and he had always been worried about money until he was in his thirties and he was totally inept. Because of lack of money, his newly-married wife took on domestic violence from him everyday, and she killed herself two months after marriage. Then he realised how pitiful he was and tried to kill himself in vain and entered into the priesthood for the sake of his wife wishing the act would do her good. He wished he could die during the ascetic training.

according to A Aによると

full of A Aでいっぱいである

desire 欲望

worried 心配している

in one’s thrties 30代である

totally inept 何をやってもダメ

because of A Aのために

lack of A Aがないこと

newly-married 新婚間もない

take on A Aを受ける

domestic violence 家庭内暴力

kill oneself 自殺する

realize 気がつく

pitiful 情けない

try to~ 〜しようとする

in vain 無駄に

enter into priesthood 仏門に入る

do A good Aのためになる

wish S+V SがVすればよいのにと思う

ascetic training 苦行

In the program, he was hanging his head down and he never looked like a man who went through a glorious ascetic training. I was moved by his simple and honest attitude without vanity.

hang one’s head down 首をうなだれる

look like A Aのように見える

go through A Aをやり抜く

glorious 輝かしい

be moved 感動する

simple and honest 朴訥とした

attitude 態度

vanity 虚栄心

I feel his wife was the incarnation of Kannon Bosatsu（観音菩薩）, Goddess of Mercy, and her life was to lead him to the Buddhism. As for his soul’s origin, he was the incarnation of a certain symbolic being related to Mt.Hiei（比叡山） and Enryaku-ji Temple（延暦寺）. His soul was such that if he had entered into the priesthood ten years before, he could have achieved The 1000 Day Circumambulation three times.

incarnation 化身

lead A to B AをBに導く

as for A Aに関して言えば

origin 出自

cartain ある

symbolic being 象徴的存在

related to A Aに関係した

A is such that S+V SはたいそうなものなのでSはVする

Unless you have a special mission like Mr. Sakai, mountain ascetic practices by an ordinary person would result in a poor, self-satisfied religious practice which wastes your precious time of life. Ascetic training in a closed, arranged environment where you can concentrate on yourself alone is fortunate in a sense. If you can look inside your heart in this society full of temptation and love and hate with a lot of families to protect, you can say you are exactly practicing a great ascetic training.

unless S+V SがVしない限り

mission 任務

ordinary 普通の

result in A Aという結果になる

poor 中途半端な

self-satisfied 自己満足の

religious 宗教的な

waste 無駄にする

precious 貴重な

closed 閉じられた

arranged お膳立てされた

concentrate on A Aに集中する

fortunate 恵まれている

in a sense ある意味で

society 社会

temptation 誘惑

love and hate 愛憎

protect 守る

exactly まさに

It takes true strength and is admirable to lead a life keeping balance of everything in a society abounding with temptation and freedom. This is exactly the true and admirable ascetic training. More severity lies in a social life, with the number of suicides increasing, than a closed, religious training. It can be said that a soul who failed to accomplish the training in a society in the past life is now training his own soul through a religious ascetic training in order to prepare for the training in a society in the next life.

It takes A to~ 〜するにはAが必要だ

strength 強さ

admirable 立派な

lead a life 生活を送る

keep balance バランスを取る

abound with A Aでいっぱいの

true 真実の

severity 厳しさ

lie in A Aに在る

suiceide 自殺者

the number of A Aの数

increase 増加する

fail to~ 〜することができない

the past life 前世

in order to~ 〜するために

prepare for A Aの準備をする

the next life 来生

There are a lot of successful business leaders in the modern age who practiced religious, ascetic training so hard in the past age. This impure society in the World of Reality is the very best of all the places for ascetic training.

successful 成功した

modern 現代の

impure 穢れた

the World of Reality 現実界

the very best 最高の

If you realize the preciousness of normal things in daily lives and feel grateful for anything, you are blessed, for such a person’s soul can be said to have already accomplished some religious ascetic training in the previous life.

Talking of divination or fortune telling, Takashima Ekidan（高島易断） is famous in Japan. Mr. Kaemon Takashima（高島嘉右衛門）, the founder of Takashima Ekidan, is very interesting person.

talking of A Aと言えば

divination 易

fortune telling 占い

famous 有名な

founder 創設者

interesting 興味深い

He was also a great businessman and supported the Meiji Restoration financially from behind the scenes and contributed to bringing back Japan to the country that centered around the Emperor. He communicated with most of the leading spirits of the Restoration. Also, he made the first red-light district in Yokohama and controlled the disorder of the underworld. He was a great figure who was broad-minded enough to deal with all sorts of good and evil.

support 支える

the Meiji Restoration 明治維新

financially 財政的に

from behind the scene 陰から

contribute to A Aに貢献する

bring back A to B AをBに戻す

center around A Aを中心とする

the Emperor 天皇

communicate 交流する

leading spirit 志士

red-light district 遊郭町

control 統制する

disorder 無秩序

underworld 裏世界

figure 人物

broad-minded 心の広い

…enough to~ 〜することができるくらい十分…

deal with A Aに対処する

all sorts of A あらゆる種類のA

good and evil 善と悪

His soul was sent from the World of Gods of Japan. Many outstanding figures were born around the Meiji Restoration, in a variety of fields such as politics, economy and religion. The Meiji restoration was so important a turning point to Japan that the World of Gods influenced it strongly through the World of the Dead. Souls who can have practical influences on the World of Reality, dealing with all sorts of good and evil, like Mr. Takashima, belong to the line of Susanoo（スサノオ）.

soul 魂

the World of Gods 神界

outstanding figure 傑物

a variety of A 様々なA

field 分野

such as A 例えばAのような

politics 政治

economy 経済

religion 宗教

turning point 節目

influence 影響する

the World of the Dead 幽界

practical 実践的な

line 系統

In the spiritual world of Susanoo’s line, hierarchical worlds composed of 9 classes are made up in each of the World of Gods, the World of Spirits, the World of Reality and the World of Hell. Numerous number of souls belong to each class. A soul highest in rank in the World of Fierce Gods in the spiritual world of Susanoo’s line transmigrated into Mr. Takashima. Now his soul has gone up to Heaven after he played an important role in the World of Reality.

hierarchical 階級的な

composed of A Aから構成される

numerous number of A 無数のA

highest in rank 最高位の

fierce god 鬼神

transmigrate 転生する

play a ~role 〜な役割を果たす

With his soul being such, his divination must have never failed in the World of Reality because the World of Hell was large in those days. The World of Fierce Gods is in charge of and rules destinies of humans. His soul belongs to the line of the World of Gods so it is said that he prohibited strictly making divination a tool of business, saying “I’ll never trade in divination.” He was really able to see through the future. He knew the horrible destination of people who made money by using another world.

must have pp 〜したに違いない

fail 失敗する

in those days 当時は

be in charge of A Aを担当している

rule 支配する

destiny 運命

prohibit 禁じる

strictly 厳しく

trade in A Aを売り物にする

destination 行き先

another world 異世界

Nowadays many gurus who are connected to Deivildom have pretend to be a holy man, making money hand over fist by using invisible worlds. Thier acts are nothing but the doing of Devildom because they exploit those in trouble. There are many people who call themselves a spiritual healer and do business activities around the country. Such people are selling their conscience (=inner god) to the Devil. I wish they could realize the deadly sin of using God’s name while they’re alive.

nowadays 近頃は

guru 教組

be connected to A Aに繋がっている

Devildom 魔界

pretend to be~ 〜であるふりをする

holy man 聖人

make money hand over fist 荒稼ぎをする

invisible 目に見えない

be nothing but A Aに他ならない

doing 所業

exploit 搾取する

those in trouble 困った人々

call oneself A Aを自称する

around the country 全国で

conscience 良心

inner god 内在神

the Devil 悪魔

wish 〜であればよいなと思う

realize 気がつく

deadly sin 大罪

alive 生きている

Mr. Takashima would often say, ” I’m confident in telling a fortune exactly, but I can never tell a fortune of the person who has right faith.” His saying points out a deep meaning—that the future of the person who has right faith will change in a good direction. If you hold a memorial service for your ancestors with gratitude and always be thankful to God, you don’t have to worry about good or bad luck based on your birth date. You are not affected at all by your star determined by the time of your birth.

I drop in at a section of books on spiritual worlds in a bookstore several times a year. I do it in order to find out what kind of people come to the front and check the level of spirituality of this age. Many of them are obsessed by spiritual beings belonging to the World of the Dead, but on rare occasions I come across a book on a genuine holy man.

drop in at A Aに立ち寄る

section 売り場

in order to~ 〜するために

find out A Aを見つけ出す

come to the front 世に出る

spirituality 霊性

age 時代

author 著者

be obsessed 憑かれている

belong to A Aに属する

the World of the Dead 幽界

on rare occasions たまに

run into A Aに出くわす

come across A Aに出くわす

genuine 本物の

holy man 聖者

One of those who I felt is genuine is Ramana Maharshi. He was born in the modern India and is a fabulous holy man. When I took a book which introduced Ramana Maharshi and opened it, I found a black and white picture of him taken close-up. As soon as I saw his eyes in the picture, I could see a whole image of the earth through my spiritual vision. Surprisingly, the earth was in his eyes. The iris of his eye was the earth. I had never seen such a person before.

modern 現代の

fabulous 伝説の

introduce 紹介する

black and white 白黒の

close-up アップで

as soon as S+V SがVするやいなや

whole 全体の

vision 視力

surprisingly 驚くべきことに

iris 黒目

This man is among a small number of people who have merged into the shared consciousness of the human race. He may be the only one who has done it in the last 200 years.

merge into A Aに溶け込む

shared 共有された

consciousness 意識

the human race 人類

According to my psychic reading, this man had a heart attack when he was a teenager and experienced death nearby, which experience caused him to be absorbed in meditation with the questions such as “What is a human being?”, “Who am I?” being the key. I feel the direction of his meditation was right. His consciousness was directed toward his inner god inside himself.

according to A Aによると

heart attack 心臓発作

teenager １０代の人

experience 経験する

death 死

nearby 間近に

cause A to~ Aが〜する原因となる

be absorbed in A Aに熱中する

meditation 瞑想

human being 人間

key 鍵

direction 方向

meditation 瞑想

direct 向ける

inner god 内在神

Ubusunano-kami（産土神), a holy spirit involved with one’s birth, of this man was the spirit of a mountain, the one leading to Shiva. It was lucky that he could reach a mountain in connection with the holy spirit, led by his inner god. Meditation toward his inner god in the mountain affected him so much that he was able to merge into the shared consciousness of the human race, which can be rarely achieved by humans.

be involved with A Aに関与している

lead to A Aに繋がる

in connection with A Aと関係がある

affect 影響を与える

so ~ that S+V とても〜なのでSはVする

rarely めったに〜ない

Who am I ? —” I “, whom we all think to be our own personality and individuality , is nowhere to be found after all. All and everything is nothing but an expression of the Original God.All is one.

When I take a book and just riffle through the pages, I can feel the history of the author’s soul, its level, and a spiritual being behind the author. With regard to George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and Aleister Crowley, for example, their books feel so heavy in terms of the heaviness of a soul, apart from good and evil. To be sure, a stream of spiritual energy comes into my body from their books. If a person has a strong, practical psychic power, I approve him even if he calls himself “a master” or “a sorcerer”.

riffle through A Aをぱらぱらとめくる

spiritual being 霊的存在

with regard to A Aに関しては

in terms of A Aの観点から

apart from A Aは別として

to be sure 確かに

stream 流れ

practical 実践的な

approve 認める

even if S+V たとえSがVするとしても

sorcerer 魔術師

As for the world famous Silver Birch, there was a fad of it more than 20 years ago here in Japan, too. Silver Birch has been thought of as the original text of spiritualism. When I took one of the books at a bookstore at that time, my first impression was “huh?” due to its spiritual frivolity. Riffling through the pages, I felt consciousness of humans, which was the consciousness of two professional editors of a publishing company dealing in religious books. It was consciousness of Maurice Barbanell and Hannen Swaffer.

as for A Aに関して言えば

world famous 世界的に有名な

fad ブーム

think of A as B AをBだと考える

original text 原典

impression 印象

due to A Aのために

frivolity 軽薄さ

consciousness 意識

human 人間

professional プロの

editor 編集者

publishing company 出版社

deal in A Aを扱う

religious 宗教的な

Then I did a psychic reading as to where the contents of the book came from. The base of their spiritual knowledge and what affected them most was Emanuel Swedenborg. Swedenborg is genuine. I can feel even now the tracks of his really having come and gone in spiritual worlds. Also, Christian moral consciousness, Buddhism and Indian thought, whose roots trace back t0 Ancient Shinto, are mixed in the base of their consciousness.

as to A Aに関して

content 内容

genuine 本物の

track 跡

moral 道徳の

trace back to A Aに遡る

Ancient Shinto 古神道

be mixed 混在している

The contents of the books of Silver Birch are not bad in itself. Since the books were compilations of spiritual essence of all times and places by professional writers who were familiar with religious thoughts, there is no harm spiritually, either. However, I don’t approve of anything spiritually insubstantial or unpractical.

in itself それ自体では

compilation 編集したもの

all times and places 古今東西

be familiar with A Aに精通している

harm 害

however しかしながら

insubstantial 実体のない

unpractical 実践的でない

I have said nothing about Silver Birch for many years. I have been asked about it many times but replied evasively, for to ask someone about Silver Birch reveals his true spiritual ability or level. But why am I saying this now ? Because the modern spiritualism is a castle in the air. Selfish interpretation of famous foreign books to do spiritual business, a pyramid organization abusing spiritual knowledge in the name of God, deceptive acts using foreign words—the modern spiritualism has lost its true mission and spiritual truth.

many times 何回も

reply evasively お茶を濁す

, for S+V というのもSはVするからです

reveal 明らかにする

ability 能力

modern 現代の

a castle in the air 砂上の楼閣

selfish 自分勝手な

interpretation 解釈

pyramid organization ねずみ講

abuse 乱用する

in the name of A A の名の下で

deceptive ごまかしの

mission 使命

truth 真実

As is, many people will leave the spiritual truth and won’t be able to get any absolute peace of mind. The origin of all religions and spiritualism is Ancient Shinto arising from Japan. The essence of Ancient Shinto boils down to ” to devote gratitude for being kept alive.” Whether or not you can do this simple thing. Whether or not you are conscious of it—there is a turning point of your soul right here. This thought is fair even to the people who live in an unexplored land, too.

as is このままでは

absolute 絶対的な

peace of mind 安心

origin 原点

arise from A Aから発生する

boil down to A Aに要約される

devote 捧げる

gratitude 感謝の気持ち

keep A alive Aを生かしておく

whether or not S+V SがVするかどうか

be conscious of A Aを意識している

turning point 分かれ道

right here まさにここに

fair 公平な

unexplored land 未開の地

Salvation of the human race never exists in spiritualistic seminars asking for a lot of money. Such people who attend this kind of thing(=a beast）are going to be more and more mentally unstable. Now is the age when things separated from the spiritual truth are accompanied by harmful side effects on mind and body. Let’s search for God inside yourself.

September 11 is the date when Multiple Simultaneous Terrorism acts in the U.S. occurred. For the purpose of preventing this kind of terrorism from happening again, the U.S. government decided to go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq. The number of the victims who are civilians has exceeded that of the victims in the terrorism on September 11 and has been on the increase.

date 日付

Multiple Simultaneous Terrorism acts in the U.S. アメリカ同時多発テロ

occur 起こる

for the purpose of ~ing 〜するために

prevent A from ~ing Aが〜するのを防ぐ

government 政府

go to war 戦争を行なう

victim 犠牲者

civilian 民間人

exceed 超える

The problem is the war has been conducted for the prevention of terrorism and there is a high possibility that the U.S government will go to war first against another country. Should this kind of war be repeated, the superpowers couldn’t back out, which would lead to the final battle. In that case, the terrorist attack on September 11 would have triggered it.

conduct 行なう

prevention 防止

possibility 可能性

Should S be pp もし万が一Sが〜されるならば

repeat 繰り返す

superpower 大国

back out 引く

lead to A Aをもたらす

the final battle 最終戦争

trigger 引き金となる

Talking of the end of the world, Nostradamus’s Great Prophecies are famous in Japan. Among them, the most famous is :

“In the year 1999 and seven months, The Great King of Terror shall come from The Sky. He will bring to life the King of the Mongols. Before and after, Mars rules happily.”

There are many interpretations about this sentence, including the matter of authenticity of Nostradamus himself.

talking of A Aと言えば

prophecy 予言

famous 有名な

interpretation 解釈

sentence 文

including A Aを含めて

matter 問題

authenticity 真贋

Now, let me interpret it a little. Seeing Nostradamus with my psychic vision, he had the ability to get a vision of the future in fragments. But visions he received were only fragmentary pictures without explanation by a spiritual being behind him. So he must have had no ability to specify the age and time of the vision. However, he wrote the date clearly only in the poem above. I asked the spirit behind him why it was so.

psychic vision 霊視

ability 能力

in fragments 断片的に

explanation 説明

specify 特定する

If you turn “1999” upside down, you can get “6661”— “666” and “1.” “666” means “beast” and “1” means ” beginning.” The spirit told me that “1999” was a secret language of “the year of the beginning of the beast.” “1999” didn’t mean the age. Though there are some interpretations about it such as one that “666” is “616”, according to the spirit, people in those days Nostradamus lived recognized “666” as “beast.”

turn A upside down Aを逆さまにする

mean 意味する

beast 獣

secret language 隠語

according to A Aによると

recognize A as B AをBと認識する

Wondering what age the prophecy referred to, I did psychic reading about the vision he saw. All I got was a scene of a modern jumbo jet seen from below. He wouldn’t have understood what this is at all. It is said that he wrote about this scene in a letter, where he described it as “a huge bird”, and sent it to one of his relatives or his son.

refer to A Aに言及する

scene 場面

modern 現代の

not…at all まったく〜ない

describe A as B AをBと描写する

relative 親戚

I feel that what he saw is exactly the terrorist attack on September 11. The prophecy can be interpreted as “When the beast(=the international arms dealer) starts a terrorist attack from the sky, it triggers off the king(= the fundamental and immortal law) reviving in the East.” By the way, the spiritual beings behind him were Archangel Michael and John.